One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

There is nothing new in art except talent.